In order to reach higher areas without risks
A citizen student invents a prosthetic hand to maintain electricity
Al-Kindi explains the project's work at the Science and Technology Festival.
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A citizen student in the eleventh grade at Al Shefaa Bint Abdullah School for Secondary Education in Sharjah has invented a device that is an “artificial hand” controlled by a remote worker, to repair electrical faults.
The student, Shamma Khalfan Al Kindi, told "Emirates Today" that the prosthetic hand is sent by the maintenance worker up to reach the wires, while he wears gloves with his real hand and controls the prosthetic hand, through the glove that sends signals to the prosthetic hand with the required orders, and thus can repair faults.
In the prosthetic hand, there is a camera that enables the worker to see what is happening at the top, in addition to being equipped with different screwdrivers that facilitate the process of removing screws.
She explained that the process of maintaining electricity in high areas is difficult and requires great effort, and was inspired by the idea of the project from the dangers that electric workers encounter when working in high areas.
She added that the use of robots in the maintenance process means that all members of the robot are used, such as the body and feet, but maintenance of faults requires only the hand and the look (the camera), so I created this device to reduce the cost of the robot and this hand performs the same tasks accurately and easily.
Al-Kindi stated that her project, which took about two months to complete, won the award for "the best individual project in the field of technology", at the National Festival of Science, Technology and Innovation, organized by the Ministry of Education, recently, at "Expo 2020 Dubai".
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